World of Warcraft release date — November 23, 2004 …excerpt: DailyGame …Foton: November 23 is the day for Blizzard to put up or shut up, in a manner of speaking. I’ll spend the next week deciding which retail outlet won’t screw me over on a pre-order.

From Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow:
The State of Play II conference on social issues in online gaming is underway, and Wired News has a report on a fascinating debate regarding free speech in gamespace:

Recently, in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game A Tale in the Desert, an uproar erupted after an in-game trader declared that he would not sell to women and then inquired whether one female character was for sale…

Wired …excerpt from: Boing Boing … Foton: Please let that stupid fucking story from that stupid fucking game die!!! These are not pressing moral dilemmas. Some guy was a douchebag and the drama queen “victim” should have told him to “fuck off” and let that be the end of it.

“Developer CCP today announced that its upcoming EVE Online expansion, EVE Online: EXODUS, will be released worldwide on November 17th, 2004. Coming as a free downloadable upgrade, the expansion will include a number of new features,
” ……excerpt from: Game Gossip … Foton: You do see the beauty here, don’t you? The perfect Christmas gifts! Burn the download to a stack of CDs and wrap them up for the in-laws. Thank you Eve Online, for making my holidays that much brighter!